April 29, 2005

Civil War Historian Explores Obstacles to Healing

By RICHARD BYRNE

UNFINISHED WORK: When the last Confederate troops surrendered to Union soldiers in May 1865, the "unfinished work" of war that Abraham Lincoln spoke of in his address at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg was completed. Yet the healing of the wounds inflicted by the Civil War -- exacerbated by Lincoln's April 1865 assassination -- was only beginning.

Many American historians have emphasized images of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb laying down arms and embracing in

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